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Road test: Escol eS3EVO

A first ride on an Ascol electric scooter is a combination of a taste of the future of urban mobility with lots of nostalgia. Is this tool going to produce an urban revolution?

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Keenan Cohen

If, like me, the first thing that comes to mind when looking at the eS3EVO school is the mythical Piaggio C, it means two things: the first is that the 80s were a very significant period for you, and the second that you are very right and very wrong.

Because these two tools, despite the decades and the technological chasm that gaps between them are very reminiscent of each other in some of their core meanings. Both are basic, basic means of transportation that sanctify efficiency and economy first and foremost. From now on it's just your imagination, because they are very different.

The Italian Escol is a company that until 6 years ago had nothing and a half to do with vehicles, but when it comes to electric motors, you will probably find one of them in all the appliances of the companies Bosch, General Electric, Siemens, AEG, Panasonic, Hoover and more , Because when a certain company produces 200,000 electric motors a day you can be sure of two things: 1. They will get everywhere, 2. They know what they are doing.

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When they correctly and correctly identified the electric trend in 2014, the company established an electric division for vehicles, which operates very differently from other two-wheeled manufacturers. Unless this minimalist style fascinates you, no one will try to sell you any "lifestyle" crap or anything. This tool, actually very much like the same Piaggio is operational simplicity and efficiency to which two wheels are attached.

This is noticeable from the moment I swing my leg over her friendly-height seat of 760 cm and the slim and very light tool that weighs 86.2 kg rotates in place. Turning the power key turns on a simple dashboard with relevant information lines such as battery charge, range, speed, mileage and driving status. All the buttons and controls fall bull into the hands, but there aren’t many of those actually.

Under the seat there are two 2.82 kilowatt-hour batteries that provide an optimal 96 km range. An urban scooter is much more than it needs for a daily and even three-day ride. The batteries are removable along with the charger, so you can charge them home for a charge that lasts about 2.5 hours. 80 percent charge and about 7 hours for full charge, keep in mind that both together weigh 16 kg.

The eS3EVO has three riding modes, an ECO that will save you battery power, but weakens it to an unreasonable level for running even in the city, a "normal" mode that is quite fine for heavy traffic and a "POWER" mode that utilizes the full 2,700 watts of engine (3.67 hp). A short ride on it in its natural living area in Tel Aviv reveals a tool that is similar in performance to the 50 cc scooters of yesteryear. It is determined in the first meters of the jump and easily reaches the 50 km / h section and from there a collection of km / h to a maximum speed of about 65 km / h patiently. The last two modes are the ones I rode most of the time, fast power transmission and good handle response. Leaner and natural, the time it takes to get used to its regenerative braking (which charges the battery during deceleration) is short and very quickly learn to control the throttle management to get this engine braking just in time.On such low weight, his two disc brakes have no problem planting it in place.

The choice of Ascol in the arrangement of a motor that is in the middle of the tool and drives the rear wheel via a belt, as opposed to an electric motor integrated in the rear wheel has three advantages. The center of gravity of the tool, the ease of maintenance of the rear wheel pull in the case of a puncture, but at the most everyday level - a reduction of the non-bounced weight that is not supported and damped by the shock absorbers. Connect this point with 16-inch rims (just like in the early models of the Piaggio C by the way) and you got a tool that knew how to handle very nicely even when I went down sidewalks with it and on the distorted route of light rail excavations.

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Summary

Like almost every power tool at the moment, no matter if it is four- or two-wheeled, the eS3EVO Escol is also suitable for very specific use. In his case it is an urban rider for whom an electric bike is too small / slow / weak / dangerous and on the other hand does not like to get on a 125 cc tool for the costs that come with it. Because costs are another important thing in the school. It is true that it is very expensive compared to the performance it offers, 17,900 Shekels buy you a 125 not bad scooter at all, with space for a helmet under the chair, a flat floor to place bags, a higher performance shell, etc. But in front of an Excel file that weighs the cost of insurance, fees, treatments, fuel and more, the account balances pretty quickly. eS3EVO requires insurance (failure 50 cc, about NIS 2,000), annual test (failure 50 cc - NIS 44), the cost of "fuel" amounts to 4-6 cents per km and treatments that amount to periodic inspection and belt replacement One drive for 8,000 km costs NIS 350. True, the batteries are expensive and cost about NIS 5,000, but according to the manufacturer they can withstand 800-1,000 charging cycles, the importer's warranty is two years with no mileage limit.

So the eS3EVO school is still not the tool that will bring the quiet revolution of electricity, not in the envelope of usability or performance, but it joins a wave of power tools that in the coming years will change the way we ride in the city and for the better.